>From rhash@vt.edu Mon Oct 28 23:02:02 1996 Received: (from mailadm@localhost) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA13159 for fox@fox.cs.vt.edu; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:02:02 -0500 Received: from as2511-35.sl013.cns.vt.edu (as2511-35.sl013.cns.vt.edu [128.173.37.66]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA06291 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:01:56 -0500 Message-Id: <199610290401.XAA06291@sable.cc.vt.edu> X-Sender: rhash@mail.vt.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:04:38 +0500 To: fox@vt.edu From: Rachel Hash Subject: Meeting Minutes Here are the Minutes of the Meeting from 10/24/96 -The Provost will be conducting meetings in dormoritories to examine student life and each of us will be taking a turn in following her around and asking some questions. Terri will get her schedule from her office and will post it. -We must ensure, thanks to the Provost's urging, that we document all our stats with multiple sources. -Most other committees are ahead of us and we need to come up with a long meeting time. For that purpose, we have sceduled one for November 12 from 8am-11am in 419 Newman. -In regards to the undergraduate survey, the graduate survey is a great foundation and could just be altered - i.e. taking out the "graduate" - for the time being. We all need to come up with two questions to add to the survey and send them to Cathy at ctg@vt.edu, as she will be compiling all the information. -The intent of the survey needs to be defined according to Anne. For us, Ed believes it to be a way for us to establish a baseline data about students and their knowledge. -Anne believes the survey will be more productive if we have 4 Big, Overall questions we want answered and then form the rest of the questions out of these four. -Ed talked about a couple of problems and the way we could solve them: 1.Plethera of paper -Web page established -HEIR are reports that have been written prior to our self-study and may be useful for information. -If you have any suggestions about things that could be added to the page, let Ed know. 2.Handout about "Questions and Related Recommendations" -The middle part is simply questions that appear valuable -Question 1 is subtle and contains its own recommendation that we need to attract residential students who are female, from other nations, etc.. We need to watch out for normative questions such as this, because they presume a direction we have not agreed to take. -A danger we need to be careful of is viewing our Self Study Topic too narrowly so that we ignore the bigger picture of educating. -Barbara voiced some frustration as she sees us getting to a point we want to focus on and then backing off and becoming more general. We are looking at one aspect of the University and are stuyding it. We need to know where people are, find out where the holes are in technology, and then become more broad -Tim Luke made the point that technology is to enhance instruction, not to replace it. -Ed said that students have many different experiences - service, technology, etc. And these experiences may be aided by computers or faculty who use technology. Technology is one of the components of learning, but not THE component. -Anne said that the Introductory chapter is not finished yet, but she will be working hard on it. That will provide us all with a bigger picture. -Terri made the comment that the most fundamental issue is - How do we provide the most powerful education for students? There is a huge amount of history for applying technology to education, and not all of it good. Too often we through out the baby with the bath water. The program instruction works but the technology tended to bore people. Today, students don't even know who B.F. Skinner is. So, Terri will provide an outline of some of this history with the help of some other "ghost" writers. -Anne saids that the question of How education looks from the students viewpoint needs to be addressed. -Ed said that we are essentially dealing with a three-legged stool. 1. Computer Technology and what it is good for 2. Student Learning Styles 3. Teaching Styles How they fit together is very valuable. How does computer technology fit how people learn and how people teach? The virtual lab is great for some, and not for others. How can technology be used to promote rich tasks of interaction while bringing the world to the classroom? That's all of it. Hope this is what you wanted. Rachel